The healthcare crisis facing working-class and poor New Yorkers is getting worse. St. John’s Episcopal Hospital, the only acute-care facility for hundreds of thousands of patients in the Rockaways in Queens is endangered. This is the New York community hardest hit by Hurricane Sandy last year.
Meantime, Brooklyn’s Long Island College and Interfaith Hospitals are on life-support, this after several major NYC hospitals in Harlem, Greenwich Village and Queens closed their doors in recent years. All of these hospitals serve or served distressed and underserved patient populations.
On Wednesday, August 14, nurses and healthcare workers will be joined by elected officials, clergy and concerned community groups in a march and rally to demand that the Governor and Mayor step up to save St. John’s Episcopal in Far Rockaway.
The hospital has already closed its Detox Unit and Dialysis is now on the chopping block. The facility’s trustees have rejected a potential merger with North Shore LIJ Health System, but only a merger with a first-class health system will prevent further cuts in services and save the hospital. Save the date. August 14, 4-7 pm, to march and rally for quality healthcare, rebuilding and good jobs in the Rockaways. St. John’s Episcopal Hospital, 327 Beach 19th St. – Far Rockaway.
For more information, call 855.616.1199 or email KimberlyC@1199.org
- See more at: http://www.1199seiu.org/caregivers_community_to_rally_to_save_healthcare_in_the_rockaways_ny#sthash.GmRSJf3N.dpuf
Meantime, Brooklyn’s Long Island College and Interfaith Hospitals are on life-support, this after several major NYC hospitals in Harlem, Greenwich Village and Queens closed their doors in recent years. All of these hospitals serve or served distressed and underserved patient populations.
On Wednesday, August 14, nurses and healthcare workers will be joined by elected officials, clergy and concerned community groups in a march and rally to demand that the Governor and Mayor step up to save St. John’s Episcopal in Far Rockaway.
The hospital has already closed its Detox Unit and Dialysis is now on the chopping block. The facility’s trustees have rejected a potential merger with North Shore LIJ Health System, but only a merger with a first-class health system will prevent further cuts in services and save the hospital. Save the date. August 14, 4-7 pm, to march and rally for quality healthcare, rebuilding and good jobs in the Rockaways. St. John’s Episcopal Hospital, 327 Beach 19th St. – Far Rockaway.
For more information, call 855.616.1199 or email KimberlyC@1199.org
- See more at: http://www.1199seiu.org/caregivers_community_to_rally_to_save_healthcare_in_the_rockaways_ny#sthash.GmRSJf3N.dpuf
